charge shot adds a tracking tag to an enemy.
auto attack homes in towards tagged enemy, more tags mean better home. tagging a different enemy removes previous tags.
I dont know what else to add.
perhaps this might be too complicated to implement, or too broken, or gimmicky, which I expect because all the good ideas already exist in the game :\
@flowchart maybe make it so the tag would slightly increase the damage dealt against a marked target by that weapon? In LD that is.
Would be interesting. As a gun I would think it could branch off catalyzer or something.
Could be something like bullets are affected by a sort of "gravity" state, and the charge shot creates a new "center of gravity". Therefore, while there is no "target", bullets would travel straight, but if the target is smart the bullets will curve around them. This also means the bullets will travel slowly until they get caught by the target, and then speed up and shoot towards them.
Bullets could then hit a completely different target.
This would be useful in both PvE and lockdown, since we could have a slow-moving bullet that deals damage, but on top of that if you land a charge shot you have a new interesting bullet to play with. If you mark two or more enemies then your bullets might do some crazy stuff too. Imagine a full team using such a weapon - bullets home in on certain targets for sure but if they miss they might move really fast from the gravitational pulls!
@Fangel
I was thinking about it when I was using the catalyzer, but I thought the idea was way too different, so I just made it a different weapon :\
I ALSO was thinking the multiple tags, but then I thought it would be difficult/glitchy to program
damn, I just realized. I always make my friends equip only catalyzer for fun, and we have a blast (geddit, blast, hehe) but imagine this, just spam the charge against a single enemy and then spam the regular shot for a crazy amount of bullets and lag on the screen.
sounds like it would be an ok idea for pve but not ld.